If we stay true to The Usual Suspects, this takes us to a very dark place.
A very dark place, indeed.
Jar Jar is… gulp Keyser Soze?!
The bumbling, the voice… It was all a ruse!
How about as a hologram? Some recorded message or maybe a Jedi training tool.
It’d have to be a Sith training tool. But there was no indication that there were any Sith left other than Vader and Sidious in the original trilogy.
Besides, doesn’t sound like Vader’s bag… “Find the Resistance and destroy their base! Now, I’ll be right back, I’ve a training hologram session at 4:00. Ready my R2 unit!”
Even if they were to clone Anakin, he’d be unmaimed by Obi. He wouldn’t need the suit.
I like this one; you could leave it mysterious who is actually in the Vader armor until some key point in the narrative, at which point it turns out to be the last person anyone suspected 
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“I’m not the original Darth Vader. My actual name is Ryan. The original Vader is retired and living in Patagonia.”
C3PO, but he only did it to get the old gang back together.
They could use both. The clone theory would be the red herring that would get Skywalker and Co. involved for three films worth of alternating pursuit and failure. At the end of Episode IX they remove the suit from the dying Vader to find it inhabited by a little green Yoda type creature who just wanted to outdo his more famous kinsman.
“You see, the name (well, and the suit) is the key. No one would fear Darth Wesley.”
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Oh God, no!!!**
Also already covered by the EU.
Gah, really? I never paid attention to the EU. I like my SW cannon to come from the films. That is, until Lucas took a big dump all over with the prequels.
I’ll just go on record saying there’s no satisfying way to bring Vader back. Any way you dice it, it either seems a desperate excuse to keep the coolest bad guy in the films, or a really contrived and cheesy way—and I’m talking post-prequels.
If I can see the Millenium Falcon go lightspeed with Ford and Chewie behind the wheel one more time though, I’m in the seats.
I think you mean Westley. Because Wesley is somebody else again.
Hm any chance that we are going to get Senator Jar Jar doing a dance video, gungan style 
Declan
I think that is a mistake. I would like to see something like they did with Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode from I think season one where they were infected with something that made their emotions go wild and Data got him some sweet Tasha. Captain Picard and Riker are reading about a similar instance and mention Captain Kirk offhandedly with no other comment. If they actually try to bring Vader back, it seems like a very lazy way to spur interest. I feel they need a new bad guy completely separate from what has already been.
I used to be a big EU reader, years ago… and darned if I can figure out where in all that mess they can possibly wedge a trilogy’s worth of material that people would be remotely interested in, and the original actor’s remotely appropriate-looking for, without taking a giant dump on the exisiting EU stories. Which were, in theory, all “Lucas-approved” even though some of the storylines didn’t exactly mesh properly.
Meh. The EU books always felt like glorified fan-fiction to me. Even though they’re supposedly Lucas approved, some bits I’ve heard sounded pretty uninspired and coming from a lot of different authors with no real back bone to it. I’m pretty dubious as to how much he was involved.
Whatever happens with VII-IX I’d feel marginally better about it, since the Prequels were such a flop. If they make 3 more films with the original cast and even mine some ideas, characters or names from the EU, that’s fine.
It seems they’re trying to go for something that feels like Star Wars. Despite all the familiar set dressings, the prequels just didn’t have the same dynamic, chemistry or magic the original trilogy did. It failed mostly because of that.
So yeh, SW is all about the films for me.
Leia and Han could always have kids. Twins even. They’d be adults by now, about the same age as Anakin. With Han as their father, and with Uncle Luke training him as a Jedi, the boy might get a little cocky with a chip on his shoulder (or maybe he lost his shoulder. His right one). Yoda might not think him suitable if he were still around, but he’s not… And who knows where that suit is.
“Han, I AM your son.”
“I know.”
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Assume that in order to keep balance within the force, each person must have an opposite.
Yoda tends to be a “Force Shaman”, and until now, we have no idea who his opposite is.
This entity resurrects the Emperor and Darth in an attempt to take one last swipe at the Alliance.
Plausible? Not to a die hard fan who refuses to believe any Star Wars movies exists after V, or before IV.